Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-12-03
COAST ITEMS.

The bark Otasa, at San Diego, was dam
aged Monday night by dynamite bomt
which was thrown against it.
The man arrested at Baker City, Or, as
Pete Olsen, the Napa county murderer, has
been discharged from custody.
Byron is happy over the possession OF a
double. bodied pig with one head, which
came into the world Monday night.
Los Angeles has offered the National SOL
diers' Home Committee the choice Of ten
sites for the Branch Soldiers Home.
The third trial of Prescott and Meyers,
charged with robbng the Yosemite stage two
years ago, began at Fresno Thursday.
Afford and Moore, two Los Angeles po-
lieemen, have been dismissed the service for
intoxication and attempted blackmail.
! Mrs. Riley who was severely burned while
putting out brush fire on her ranch near
Yountville the other day, died Thursday.
The Grand Jury of Stanislaus county Is
investigating the hanging # Frand McCut-
cheon, at Oakdale, for incendarlSm, the
other day.
Fred Denny who has been confined in the
jail al Sacramento on the charge OF abduct-
ing I5-year old girl, was married this week
to the girl.
The trouble among the union and non.
union sailors at San Diego is growing more
hitter, and there is uneasiness among the
masters OF vessels in the harbor.
There is a rumor at Sacramento that War
den Shirley of San Quentin Prison will qui-
city retire from Office and that General
MeComb, Warden of the Folsom Prison, will
take charge of San Quentin on the first OF
next January.
Mile F. Clasbey, wife of James T. Clas
bey, who is well known as an old timer in
San Francisco and on the coast. committed
suicide at Salt Lake this week by taking
powdered strychnine while in state OF men,
tai responsibility.
Work on the Sacramento and PIacerville
railroad is being pushed toward completion
with greater dispatch than probably the rail
road company itself expected II would when
the extension was commenced. The storm
may check operations.
At Ouch Flat, Placer county. a spring
gun was set at the slaughter -heuse to shoot
thieves. C. II. Carin, a mill and cattle
man, having occasion to 60 there yesterday,
got the load Of buckshot in hi, left arm,
which he will probably lose.
Before the Supreme Court OF Utah, the
counsel for the Mormon Church yesterday
made application for an order 10 permit suits
o be brought against Receiver Over for the
recovery of church property. The Court
cook the matter under adviSement
Mrs. Hardy OF Santa Cruz, who was turned
into The streets by Partie, who claimed to
nave purchased her residence, has the sym
ABLY Of the people OF that town. A sui
brought against her Tor malicious nj schief, |
was Il cihrd in her favor thus week, and the
people IN The court Dom greeted The d cIsIon
WI cheers
w w. Pra,is has brought suit at Sacra
IN, MO against Thomas Holder, proprietor OF
th- Clty Hotel, on X street, for S2o9 dam
ages for ,njurie, inflicted on his person while
a bed one night, for which he had |
paid IS cents. His complaint, filed in Judge |
Davis court, alleges that said bed instead |
of being free from pests was on the contrary !
occupied with bugs, insects, heas lice and
of all kinds, 10 the number OF sew
raj hundred thousand, which said bugs,
hea,, lice and parasites crawled upon, bit,
attacked and wounded plaintiff and hereby
he was wounded by the lice to his damage
IN the full sum of S299.